neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia,

the reality of Russia’s claims of self defense

…WTF? There are way too many Canadians with ties to Ukraine, myself included, that would be offended at the very idea of anything but utter condemnation of Russia’s inhumanly brutal invasion. How can an invasion ever be “self defense”, that’s absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It’s not. It’s abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.

Cory Doctorow thought that through: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham